The United States has the largest economy in the world at $20.4 trillion, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From its data copied to the Ghana News Agency, it shows that the US economy increased from around $19.4 trillion last year. It said China follows, with $14 Read More

A Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in northern Ethiopia has been killed by a crocodile, police and residents have told BBC Amharic. About 80 people were being baptised when Pastor Docho Eshete lost his life on Sunday morning, at the lake in Arba Minch town’s Merkeb Tabya district. “He baptized the […]Read More

The man behind one of NSW’s most shocking murders will learn whether or not he is to be released from prison at the end of this month. Neville Raymond Towner brutally raped and killed four-year-old Lauren Hickson at the Nepean River in Emu Plains, in Sydney’s west almost 30 years ago. Then 23, he was […]Read More

Three female suicide bombers blew up a mosque overnight in Niger’s southeastern city of Diffa, killing 10 worshipers who had gathered after the breaking their Ramadan fast, an army spokesman said. The area around Diffa, close to Lake Chad and the borders with Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has been plagued by two factions of militant […]Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is not trying to split the European Union. His remarks come ahead of a visit to Austria, his first trip to a Western European country in nearly a year. He told Austria’s ORF station he wanted a “united and prosperous” EU, calling the bloc Russia’s most important commercial […]Read More

Emmerson has raised 6 million pounds by issuing 200 million new shares to develop a potash project in Morocco and on Monday the company resumes trade on the London Stock Market. Potash prices collapsed two years ago but have begun to recover after the crash led to mine closures, limiting supply. Emmerson said its share […]Read More

Bill Clinton’s testy exchange with an NBC reporter about the #MeToo movement and his lack of direct personal apology to Monica Lewinsky is worth watching, both because it underlines the difficulties the former president’s legacy will face as it ages and because it pinches the nerve the former president exposes for Democrats looking to the […]Read More

First lady Melania Trump, who had not been seen publicly for the past 24 days, attended an official White House event with President Donald Trump Monday afternoon. The event, a private East Room reception for more than 40 Gold Star military families, was not in and of itself an unusual activity for the first lady […]Read More

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said he is free to stand for a third term in the 2020 presidential election under the country’s new constitution, according to an interview in this week’s edition of French magazine Jeune Afrique. This is the first time Ouattara, who was first elected in a 2010 election that sparked a […]Read More

Former President Bill Clinton defended himself Monday from recent criticism of his affair with Monica Lewinsky in light of the #MeToo movement, telling NBC’s “Today” he never reached out to the former White House intern following the scandal. Asked if he owed Lewinsky an apology, Clinton told NBC’s Craig Melvin, “No, I do not — […]Read More